The aerial post : descriptive fantasia
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The aerial post : descriptive fantasia
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- Hollands, Hiram. cmp; M. H. ill; Bella C. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Sheet Music (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI
- Publication date
- 1911
- Topics
- Piano music, Program music, Popular instrumental music, Air mail service, Windsor Castle, Monoplanes, Clouds, sheet music
- Publisher
- London (95 New Oxford Street) : W. Paxton & Co. Ltd.
- Collection
- smithsonian
- Contributor
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Item Size
- 7.8M
For piano
Illustrated t.p. features illustration of monoplane flying over Windsor Castle, the destination of England's first air mail. Clouds in the distance. Signed "M.H."
Publisher's advertisement on verso of t.p. for The "daisy" series of piano forte albums: No. 54. Twentieth dance album (March, Valse in F, Two-step, Valse in G, Barn dance, Polka, and Galop with incipits for Valse in F, Two-step, Barn dance, and Polka). No. 59. Music of the bells (Bells at sunset, Chime again, Invitation of the bells, Les clochettes, Sabbath evening chimes, and Sweet golden bells with incipits for Chime again, Bells at sunset, Les clochettes, and Sweet golden bells). No. 58. Masquerade album (Fairy lanterns, The silver king, The domino, Romeo & Juliet, The clown, The gipsy queen, Mother Shipton, and Unmasking with incipits for Fairy lanterns, The silver king, The gipsy queen, and unmasking). Publisher's advertisement on verso of p. 5 has incipits for piano pieces: Big Ben: fox trot / John C. Holliday. Prelude : simplified edition of Rachmaninoff's famous composition / Paul Eastman. Mandoline : serenade / A.H. Oswald. Down in clowntown : fox-trot / Julian Fredericks. Harlequin and columbine : intermezzo ; Felicidad : tarantella / A.H. Oswald. Dream bells : waltz and chimes / Cecil Frost. Serenade Italienne / Julian Fredericks
Bringing out the machine -- Increasing speed -- Circling -- Speeding through the air -- A sudden descent -- Rising again -- Nearing home -- Back in the aerodome
1 other copy in Landauer collection
Illustrated t.p. features illustration of monoplane flying over Windsor Castle, the destination of England's first air mail. Clouds in the distance. Signed "M.H."
Publisher's advertisement on verso of t.p. for The "daisy" series of piano forte albums: No. 54. Twentieth dance album (March, Valse in F, Two-step, Valse in G, Barn dance, Polka, and Galop with incipits for Valse in F, Two-step, Barn dance, and Polka). No. 59. Music of the bells (Bells at sunset, Chime again, Invitation of the bells, Les clochettes, Sabbath evening chimes, and Sweet golden bells with incipits for Chime again, Bells at sunset, Les clochettes, and Sweet golden bells). No. 58. Masquerade album (Fairy lanterns, The silver king, The domino, Romeo & Juliet, The clown, The gipsy queen, Mother Shipton, and Unmasking with incipits for Fairy lanterns, The silver king, The gipsy queen, and unmasking). Publisher's advertisement on verso of p. 5 has incipits for piano pieces: Big Ben: fox trot / John C. Holliday. Prelude : simplified edition of Rachmaninoff's famous composition / Paul Eastman. Mandoline : serenade / A.H. Oswald. Down in clowntown : fox-trot / Julian Fredericks. Harlequin and columbine : intermezzo ; Felicidad : tarantella / A.H. Oswald. Dream bells : waltz and chimes / Cecil Frost. Serenade Italienne / Julian Fredericks
Bringing out the machine -- Increasing speed -- Circling -- Speeding through the air -- A sudden descent -- Rising again -- Nearing home -- Back in the aerodome
1 other copy in Landauer collection
- Addeddate
- 2017-03-27 22:28:31
- Call number
- mq1687992
- Call-number
- mq1687992
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- aerialpost00holl
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t2b90hm57
- Identifier-bib
- mq1687992
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 11.0
- Pages
- 8
- Possible copyright status
- Public domain. The Library considers that this work is no longer under copyright protection
- Ppi
- 300
- Year
- [ca. 1911]
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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